Tuesday, March 17, 1942
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mtnistratHMi of of the nlverslly.
The Right Hand
And the Left Hand
Crucial days lie ahead for men and women
students in the activities maelstrom as it ap
proaches its climax at the spring election and
Ivy Day. Activity-minded students who have
worked for three years for the crown of glory
are now entering the last and most vicious
phase of their collegiate career.
This group of juniors, especially, are wait
ing the tap of an Innocent or the masking of
'a Mortar Hoard. It is toward that end they have
been working. Membership in the former or
latter organization spells their triumph. Their
goal is a worthy objective, but the methods of
aHving at such a station are not nearly so
commendable.
This afternoon, tonight, this week and
those following will see a lot of back scratch
ing, boondoggling, and dirty dealing on the
part of the "to be's" and the "has beens."
One who has not dipped his fingers into the
activities pie would not sense the behind the
scenes actions of the supposedly benevolent
bigshots.
For example, there might be two equally
qualified men for a position high up in the
campus organizations. Both would like to have
the position and the prestige which accom
panies it, but unfortunately there isroom for
only one. So the champions of the two individ
uals get together and work out a scheme
whereby some "equitable" arrangement can
be made to satisfy both candidates. One side
fers this. The other side offers that. Finally,
it all comes out in the wash when school is out.
It all looks so open and above board. The
little bigshots and the big bigshots chase about
the campus on their white chargers stopping
only long enough to mount tin pedestals and
vociferously pronounce what should be done
for the university and for activities as a part
My dear Mr. Editor:
I write this note to thank you for the humor your
Betty Grahle contest lent campus life. I suppose
you restricted your contest to fraternity men, be
cause you assumed that they made up the most
libidinous section of the male population of the
campus. Unfortunately for your contest, the win
ning entry shows that fraternity men are about as
lecherous as earthworms.
The old belief in fraternity men's having a mo
nopoly on the organic urge is a mythtalse. Mothers
of coeds please copy: Fraternity men are not
salacious, but safe for island company. The fra
ternity man who won the contest might as well have
Chris Peterson on the island, for all his interest In
Miss Grable. However it may be well for you to
give this stupid Simon the picture of Miss Grable.
Terhaps it will shock him into manhood.
Thank you again for the best joke of the week.
Your reader,
ELMER SrRAGUE,
Editor's note: And may we return the thanks for driving
the "Joke" in Ihe ground. It might interest other readers to
know that the Dally Nebrasksn had nothing to do with estab
lishing the rules for the contest.
Uiitermcyer Asserts Nation
Is on Verge of Golden Age
CL UjcVl Ckw
By Marsa Lee Civin.
The first Nebraska man reported to have
lost his life in the sinking of the Tuscania was
W. N. Bennett, graduate of the university
forestry class in 1912. The late Mr. Bennett
left the university and entered the government
forestry service and was in the Ozarks when war
broke out. He. then entered the twentieth engi
neering regiment.
O. H. (iish of the Physics department left
for the east to enter in war work for the gov
ernment. Mr. Gish went to the Westinghouse
electrical laboratory at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. Cards from former students now in France
were at the Alumni Office. Many expressed
thanks for ehristruas gifts from professors and
classmates at XU.
The second number of w ar letters M as pub
lished by the faculty division of the Patrio
tic league of the University of Nebraska. Let
ters are compiled to relate interesting infor
mation on why the country is at war and back
grounds on various subjects. The title of the
second letter was "Why Huns" and stated and
answered questions on "Who were the Huns?"
"Why Germans were called Huns?". The let
ters related material on why the "huns of
1914" lived up to the advice of the kaiser in
1900 who said "Let all who fall in our hands
be at -our mercy. When we meet the foe we
will defeat him."
"We are on the verge of the
great Golden Age in all arts; we
are ready to produce our own
great Michelangelo, our great
Shakespeare. The course of power,
politics, and the arts today is
westward: America has become
the final refuge of the arts, their
salvation and future in the midst
of this global attempt at suicide."
Louis Untermeyer, introduced by
Prof. L. B. Smith, chairman
of the department of architecture,
as a distinguished author, poet,
critic, editor, and speaker, ex
pressed this opinion as the central
thought of his convocation ad
dress Sunday in the Student Un
ion. His domineering: stage presence,
keen wit and beautiful command
of words held the close attention
of over 750 students and towns
people.
Beginning with 1900, American
arts became distinctly regional,
national, American, Mr. unter
mever amplified, whereas former
ly the new world naa mereiy cop
ied and borrowed European and
classic Greek ideas. We sent our
painters to Paris to study paint
ing, our architects to Italy, poets
to the beautiful Riviera for inspir
ation. We had forgotten that even
European art had begun with
European peasants and European
soil. The poet Untermeyer added
that "art did not discover its soui
until it discovered its own soil.
Pays Tribute.
Paying high tribute to the joint
efforts of the university and the
Nebraska Art Association, he said
that the exhibit of contemporary
art in Morrill exemplified the
theme of his talk. Thoroughly
American, the exhibit featured the
beauty and ugliness of American
life, the backyards, Dusiness, ma
chinery, cornfields, farm animals,
the material substance or Amer
ica, He particularly praised the
'Woman with Plants" by the late
Grant Wood, and said that in his
opinion this painting was far su
perior to the famed "Whistlers
Mother .
Not at all the gaunt, hollow-
eyed dreamer a poet is generally
pictured, Mr. Untermeyer looks
and speaks like a successim Busi
ness man. Thmout his talk he kept
returning to the beauty of his
farm in the Adirondack moun
tains, where he admittedly finds
much inspiration for his poetry.
At the insistance of his audience
he read two of his poems written
there, "Prayer" and "Last Words
before Winter .
Poet Likes Frost.
Asked in a foiiow-up interview
to name his favorite poets the
noted critic and anthologist headed
fho list pmnhatioallv with Robert
Frost, New England poet. Then he
named Archibald MacLeish and
Carl Sandburg. Asked his opinion
on Alice Duer Miller's recent t;ar
contribution, "The White Cliffs of
Dover", he said that it is "a mov
ing bit of sentimentality", and
timely, hut will not outlive this
war. Continuing, he said that no
great war poems of the caliber of
Rupert Brook's of the last war
have yet been produced, but added
that American poets are just re
alizing their ability.
Of the younger, more promis
ing poets Mr. Untermeyer named
Muriel Rukeyser as undoubtedly
the most outstanding. Miss Rukey
ser at 26 has already published
three volumes of verse, and 1s now
working on a prose selection. She
is Untermeyer's protege, and of
course, he admits he is "a little
prejudiced".
'Androcles' Author . .
Shaw Among WorhVs Great
Contemporary Playwrights
of that institution. What they intend and what
they do is generally for the better interests of
the university. Amazingly, they somehow sep
arate the right hand from the left, but even
though the right hand does good, it is no ex
cuse for the left hand to muddy itself with per
petrations which nullify the very purpose for
which extra-curricular activities are instituted.
Books
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Nebraska's 20,000 books .will he
collected for distribution. Books
donated fcy various organizations
will be collected from the particu
lar house Saturday morning and
should be ready to go at that time.
Of particular note to the ladies,
is the new plan of writing the con
tributors name and address on the
inside front cover of the book.
Thre are real possibilities of de
veloping an interesting correspon
dence with a man in uniform,
states Mr. S. A. McCarthy, chair
man of the Civilian War Service
of Lincoln. Therefore, it follows
that the more books you coeds give
the more possibilities you will
have.
Books Should Be Good.
As to the books themselves, they
should be good books in sound
condition. Contributors are asked
to remember that the boys in serv
ice were students, office and pro
fessional men, salesmen and work
ers a few months ago. They will
like the books that you like.
Books of popular biography,
technical and scientific texts not
later than 1935, books on current
affairs, a lot of good fiction, hist
ry and travel, crime and the F.-
B. I., poetry and individual plays
geography, shorthand books, books
about playwriting and music, in
short, anything that you yourself
would he interested in is all right
with America's boys in uniform.
YW Holds Vesper
Services Today
YW Vespers service today at 5
p. m. in Ellen Smith will feature
a reading by Mrs. L. R. Snipes of
Lincoln. She will givey "The Song
of the Syrian Guest." .
Selections by the Vesper chior
in charge of Virginia Hastings will
complete the program, planned
weekly by the vesper staff work
ing under Betty Bonebright.
Gray . .
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nated the cabinet merely "hoped
for a war between Russia and
Germany and continually deceived
the people."
"Cripps leaves for India," ac
cording tto Professor Gray" 1th
hopes for solution of the grave
problem there but with a better
chance of just minimizing the vc
bellion." The problem in India in
volves the Hindus versus the Mo
slems versus the native princes,
the lecturer said.
Professor Hertler announced
that Professor David Fell man of
the political science department
will be the lecturer next week
for the seventh in the series of
lectures sponsored by the univer
sity every Monday at 5 p. m. at
the Union.
Five women are taking en
gineering courses at Wayne uni
versity.
Boi
rgan . . .
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Glory," a story of young Abe Lin
coin, and "Ladies in Retirement,"
a psychological murder drama.
He is now working on "An
drocles and the Lion" which will
he presented March 25-27, and will
leave the morning after the play's
opening night.
Bogen also originated the in
stitution of the University The
atre orchestra under Emmanuel
Wishnow, with James Naihez di
recting. Other innovations of Bo
gen in connection with his work
with the Theatre include the art
exhibits which appear in the Tern
pie lobby during each production
and the direction of "Eird in
Hand, the drawing-room play
produced in the Union, adaptation
of Dicken's "Christian Carol," and
direction of the "Living Newspa
per" production.
Commenting on his being called
into the reserve, where he will
serve with the rifle and heavy
weapons division, Lieutenant Bo
gen said, "Naturally I hate to
leave my work here, but the soon
er a great number of us go, the
sooner it will be over and we can
be back."
William Anderson, chairman of
the political science department at
the Univeristy of Minnesota is cur
rent president of the American To
litical Science association.
By Iris Carroll j
Eiehty-six years old, and still
the most talked about, best known
contemporary playwright of Eng
land! That, in a few words, sums
up George Bernard Shaw, the au
thor of "Androcles and the Lion,"
which is to be presented on March
26 to 28, by the University theater.
Shaw made his first appearance
in print at the age of 16 with a
protest in Public Opinion against
Moody and Sankey, the American
evangelists. Since that time, he
has written many of the world's
greatest contemporary plays.
Four Schools
Young Shaw disliked school
very much, and boasts of the fact
that the training of four different
schools did him no good whatever.
He despised the thought of a uni
versity education because it
seemed to turn out men who all
thought alike and were snobs.
Therefore, his boyhood was lack
ing in educative influence.
However, he liked music and, ai
the age of 14, could whistle Han
del, Mozart, and Beethoven as the
drugstore Johnny of today whis
tles the latest pieces of jive.
First Plays Failed
His first plays met with com
plete failure in England, because
his frankness was mistaken lor
prevarication and his clever jests
for the most solemn earnest. His
manuscripts were invariably re
turned by the unprogressive Lon
don publishers, who could not un
derstand h's freedom of thought
and expression, and his frankness
in dealing with the uninteresting
aspects of contemporary lire.
Nevertheless, rather than sacri
fice the principles at which he had
arrived, he accepted the tempo,
rary failure of his novels.
In "Androcles and the Lion" he
has presented one of the Roman
persecutions of the early Crls
tians, not as the conflict of the
false theology with the true, but
as what all such persecutions es
sentially are an attempt to sup
press propaganda that seems to
threaten the interests involved in
the established law.
Then, as now, those whose in
terests were at stake feared the
people, who knew the possibility
of a beautiful world based on the
demands of them for a more abun
dant life for everybody, not merely
for themselves at the expense of
others.
'Among Shaw's other works are
"Man ard Superman," "Candida,"
home and abroad, and the brilliant
At Age of 86
Pvermalion." which was made into
one of the most interesting motion
pictures of recent times.
In "Androcles and the Lion," as
in the others, he displays his ironic
nonsense, skepticism, and his bril
liance, combined with his usual
genius to present an outstanding
play.
Horse .
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that the students should begin to
think about drawing their animals,
Pat stopped in after A. H. class
and told Fidler that she would
like to show a horse in the Ak-
Sar-Ben. Fidler says that at first
he thought she was only kidding
but since he has been watching
her work he has concluded that
she is very interested in doing a
good Job of showing next Satur
day night.
Shows "Floceiia."
rat is going to show "FlowHa."
the black Tercheon mare which is
pictured above. Here she is shown
braiding "Flocellas mane, one or
the necessary steps in showing a
draft horse.
Pat plans to own a stable of
riding horses some day and thus is
interested in learning more about
showing.
The show will begin with the tra
ditional ringing of the alarm clock
at 7:30 Saturday, March 21. Sev
enty-five animals will lie shown
in the contest. According to
Frank Messersmith, this is a
slight increase over the number
shown last year.
Several special features have
been planned for t!ie show. There
will be a sheep shearing demonstr
tion by Bartlett of the National
Flexible Shaft company, and a colt
parade. It is also hoped that a
pig roping contest between some
of the professors can be arranged.
With these many features, the fif
teenth annual Junior Ak-Sar-Ben
seems destined to be a success.
The price is twenty-fivt cents and
it should be well worth your time
to attend.
Nebraska's Livestock team
placed sixth in the Fort Worth
contest out of a class of sixteen
schools. Nebraska wa fourth in
hogs, fifth in sheep, sixth in horses
and eleventh in cattle. The team,
composed of Hansen, Roth and
Sloan, will participate in the meats
contest which is to be held today.
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